“I hope this virus to catch it. At least I say ok, I’m a conspiracy theorist, a denier. Rather than die crawling, better to die on your feet“. A month and a half after saying these words in a video on your Facebook profile, Anna Caruso she really died of Covid. 64-year-old socio-health worker, she had been suspended byAlexandria hospital – the facility where she worked – as she was not vaccinated. “An agony, I cling to the pain of loved ones and friends. The news must not leave us indifferent. I say this with all my heart and with the sense of responsibility that has always characterized me: there is need to get vaccinated to try to overcome this health emergency ”, says Lorenzo Lucchini, professional nurse and mayor of Acqui Terme, where Caruso resided.
The operator died in the hospital in Tortona, where it had been transferred from that of Alexandria. In the video entitled “If a man in the square with a table is scary … to deserve a Daspo … meditate” (the reference is to Stefano Puzzer, the leader of the Trieste anti-green pass movement), the health worker claims conspiracy theses. “Let’s ask ourselves why we are closed in a bubble that only Italy has carved out for itself. I see people, we see each other, we kiss, we are together and we never took anything if not the right influence, ”he said.
“We respect everyone’s beliefs, even if sometimes you pay with your life”, they comment Salvatore Lo Presti e Francesco Pesce, provincial secretary and company delegate of the Nursind nursing union who, in expressing “closeness” to the colleague’s family, say they are “regretted that they may still exist today unscientific positions and that the healthcare world has been the victim of bad information and incorrect information ”. “First in the Pneumology department and then in Cardiology, Anna was well liked, the memory of her can only be excellent”, says Pesce. “A lot of people remind me of how much it had always been stubborn, until the end. Everyone, not just as a union, is close to the family, knowing how empty it may have left ”.